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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15 and 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In July _________, the luxury yacht, Hildegard, set off on an outing in the Atlantic off the New York coast.
(a) 1901.
(b) 1881.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1891.

2. The hotel manager, ___________________, immediately ordered his telephone operators to notify the operators in all the hotels on the north and central coast.
(a) David B. Plumer.
(b) Daniel B. Plickard.
(c) Darrel B. Pickering.
(d) Damian B. Parsons.

3. What was wrong with the North Atlantic region for the shark?
(a) It did not offer him many food choices.
(b) It had too many animals from which to choose.
(c) It was very cold.
(d) It was very warm.

4. What might have been the reason for the hotel to keep down word of the incident?
(a) To avoid depressing the tourist trade.
(b) To avoid a law suit.
(c) To avoid mass chaos and fear.
(d) To see if the boy had been attacked by a shark or had drowned.

5. Since it was unusual for the young white shark to be close to the shore in July 1916, experts later theorized that the lone predator was led toward shore by ________________.
(a) Feelings of loneliness.
(b) The currents and the smell of humans.
(c) Hunger.
(d) Scents and currents and hunger.

Short Answer Questions

1. ______________________ of working-class men and women migrated across downtown Philadelphia to the coast on the first day of July 1916.

2. Bruder's injuries and death were recorded and attributed to what?

3. Why is it difficult to catch serial-killing man-eating sharks?

4. The attack made the ________________ in the newspapers.

5. Coppleson felt there was evidence that if a shark experiences killing or mauling humans, he does what?

(see the answer key)

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